Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?

The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.

By Rachel Cooke

By Rachel Cooke

By Rachel Cooke

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This series, based on a real-life fraud peddling diets to cure cancer, explores how social media makes fools of…

By Rachel Cooke

Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.

By Rachel Cooke

The Motherland spin-off’s star returns diminished but undimmed.

By Rachel Cooke

Tom Gatti is joined by TV producer and editor Rob Burley, and the New Statesman’s TV critic Rachel Cooke.

James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that…

By Rachel Cooke

This Apple TV+ thriller is derivative and extremely silly. And yet no producer seemed to think: is this too…

By Rachel Cooke

The second season of Dan Erickson’s drama is just as bewildering and magnificent as the first.

By Rachel Cooke

This series is yet more messy human drama set in an immaculate, expensive interiors; a superior cast in ridiculous…

By Rachel Cooke